The year 2018 was extraordinary in terms of the number of cases dealing with fundamental civil liberties, the rule of law, and the accountability of the government that made the headlines.
These are the moments when the highest court in the land needs to ensure that justice is done, when the judges entrusted with upholding our Constitution ensure that even those with great power and money cannot subvert the law, where the judiciary ensures it fulfils its function as the third pillar of government, even if that means taking on the executive and the legislature.
Anyone who has followed the Supreme Court this year, however, will realise that this was not how things turned out, barring a few exceptions, and that in fact, the problematic legacies of the court’s judgments and decisions could haunt us for years, maybe even decades to come.